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Designing the Modern Automobile for Recycling
Pages 165-170

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From page 165...
... Recent successes have been achieved with lead-acid vehicle batteries (achieving 95 percent lead recycle rates, thanks to the efforts of Battery Council International) , with chlorofluorocarbons used in vehicle air conditioners, and with coolants (recovered by automobile dealerships)
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From page 166...
... ~.... Landfill _ Fluff..; Auto Shredder cling rate for metallic vehicle components but a low recycling rate for the nonmetallic materials.
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From page 167...
... The Design Guidelines Group has as its mission "to develop material selection and design guidelines to facilitate reuse, recycling, or reclamation of materials and components from post-consumer vehicles." These guidelines will lead to designs that facilitate recycling, as opposed to current vehicle designs that do not lend themselves to recycling. Initiatives that will be or have been taken include marking plastics by type to facilitate separation and recycling, reducing the number of resins used, developing environmentally appropriate attachment and detachment techniques, and improving material compatibility.
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From page 168...
... , the metal recycling industry is limited by demand considerations (supply is adequate because the magnetic and other properties allow easy separation) while plastic recycling is typically limited by supply considerations (as separation of specific polymers from the fluff, for example, is much more difficult)
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From page 169...
... If, for example, Congress dictates inflexible command-and-control recycling regulations, research and development on advanced materials would be seriously curtailed. Further, inflexible recycling regulations that fail to consider the life cycle trade-offs may well have a net negative effect on the environment.
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From page 170...
... Only market-based regulations can create such harmony. SUMMARY In the final analysis, industrial ecology considerations, life cycle waste management, and pollution prevention are quite similar.
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